Originally Posted by
rcofell
Yeah, since the fact VNC would be linked to the X-server(and subsequently the VC) you might have to mess with the config file(/etc/X11/xorg.conf), either manually or with a gui. I don't really mess with X-windows too much, so I don't know for sure.
You might also want to check out the logs for the X-server, should be something like /var/log/Xorg.*.log, with * being 0 for the most current log.
I'm pretty sure openssh(which would be independent of VC) is easy to set up in Ubuntu, but I don't think I personally set it up the time I used that distro, so I'm not certain if anything beyond installing the package is required. Granted that would require you to do things in command-line(except you can do X11 forwarding to allow you to run GUIs over it, but that takes a little bit of work for windows and you wouldn't have your full desktop), which might not be your preference.